Software Engineer | GUI

Jump Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options

Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D

Paid vacation plus paid holidays

Retirement plan with employer match

Paid parental leave

Wellness Programs

Job summary

Jump Trading Group seeks a senior GUI engineer to build high-performance, real-time trading tools. You will craft low-latency rendering pipelines and deliver real-time market data through modern web technologies, with React, WebGL/WebGPU, and WASM at the core.

You’ll mentor teammates, help shape technical direction, and collaborate across frontend and backend teams to ensure visual clarity and responsiveness under heavy data loads.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building high-performance GUI apps.
• Experience with React and modern web architectures.
• Strong understanding of rendering pipelines and graphics tech.

Responsibilities

• Build the next generation of high-performance GUI apps for real-time data.
• Focus on low-latency rendering and data delivery to the browser.
• Mentor teammates and shape technical direction.

Skills

GUI development

React

WebAssembly

WebGPU

WebGL

Realtime data

Full-stack

Performance optimization

Code reviews

Mentoring

Tools

Rust

C++

WebGL

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incentivizing collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Jump Trading has a global team of technologists who architect, build and maintain our world-class trading platform. From optimizing our core trading engine to building custom hardware, we leverage software and hardware engineering, data science and research, to deliver the infrastructure and tools that drive our trading and business needs. This role is in the Realtime Apps team where we build world class trading tools to empower trading teams to visualise and trade in markets all around the world.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will build the next generation of high-performance, data-dense GUI applications that deliver real-time market data to traders. These applications are the primary interface between users and our trading systems, with a strong focus on tick-to-screen latency, performance, and visual clarity. You will focus on low-level rendering, graphics pipelines, and efficient data delivery to the browser, leveraging modern web technologies to push the limits of what is possible in real-time GUIs. As a senior engineer, you will help shape technical direction, mentor teammates, and establish best practices for building world-class GUI systems.

Skills You’ll Need

• 5+ years of experience building high-performance GUI applications
• Strong experience with React and modern web application architecture
• Deep understanding of low-level rendering pipelines and rendering techniques
• Hands-on experience with WebAssembly (WASM), Web APIs, WebGPU, WebGL, or equivalent graphics technologies
• Experience building real-time, data-intensive web applications
• Solid full-stack fundamentals and the ability to work across frontend and backend boundaries
• Strong focus on performance, memory usage, and responsiveness under heavy data loads
• Ability to write clean, testable code and provide constructive code reviews
• Desire to take technical ownership, influence architecture, and mentor other engineers

Bonus Points

• Experience optimizing rendering pipelines for large, frequently updating datasets
• Familiarity with browser internals and performance profiling tools
• Experience with Rust or C++
• Background in trading, finance, or other real-time data-driven domains

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
• Paid vacation plus paid holidays
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness Programs

Annual Base Salary Range: $200,000 — $250,000 USD